9.8 Million
Federal Employees Delinquent on Taxes:
"The current delinquency rate is 3.1 percent of 9.8 million federal workers; in
2013, the delinquency rate stood at 3.3 percent. Department of Housing and Urban
Development employees are the worst offenders, with a delinquency rate of 4.7
percent. By contrast, those at the Treasury Department touted the least number
of delinquencies, with a rate of 1.2 percent, AP reported.

September 2014

Dad wearing Army uniform booted from school:
"Sherwood Baker, who has served in the Army for 24 years, was reportedly confronted by a security guard at Rochester Adams High School near Detroit. Baker had just arrived for an appointment to speak with his daughter’s counselor about her school schedule....

"'Security told him men and women in uniform weren’t allowed because it may offend another student.'
[Baker's wife] said her husband has been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. She was shocked the security guard denied her veteran husband’s entrance into the school."
See
The Power and Perversions
of Laws

Have Americans Lost ALL of Our Constitutional Rights?
"The 1st Amendment protects speech, religion, assembly and the press.... The Supreme Court has also interpreted the First Amendment as protecting freedom of association. However,
the government is arresting those speaking out… and violently crushing peaceful assemblies which attempt to petition the government for redress. A federal judge found that the law allowing indefinite detention of Americans without due process has a
'chilling effect' on free speech....

"Mass spying by the NSA violates our freedom of association.... The threat of being labeled a terrorist for exercising our First Amendment rights certainly violates the First Amendment....

"Of course,
Muslims are more or less subject to a separate system of justice in America.....

"The 4th Amendment prevents unlawful search and seizure:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated....
But the government is spying on everything we do..." See

is
human rights ruling flies in the face of UK justice:
"A system that was meant to prevent a return to brutal totalitarianism
has ended up supporting killers. The Left-wing ideology of
judicial activism is now so twisted, so devoid of humane values,
that it gives its backing to some of most vicious monsters in modern
British criminal history....

"One is mass murderer Jeremy Bamber, who cold-bloodedly shot dead
five members of his family, including two young children.... Another
is Douglas Vinter from Middlesbrough, who stabbed and strangled
his wife to death in 2008 soon after he had been released from prison
for a previous killing. The third is Peter Moore, a sadist who butchered
four men 'for fun' in north Wales in 1995."

"Killian and Moore will provide input on how civil rights can be violated
by those who post inflammatory documents targeted at Muslims on social
media. ... Killian is proposing is to give a special status to Islam.
No other religion has 'civil rights' that prevent it from being criticized.
That’s blasphemy law and the establishment of a state religion."
See
Why "Hate crime" laws
would ban Biblical Christianity

Irony:
Couple Cuffed For Engaging In Free Speech In Front Of Independence Hall:
"A video... records... the incident of Mark and Barb... who were engaged
in handing out flyers and talking about ending the Federal Reserve system
in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia.... They were detained and
hand-cuffed for passing out flyers and engaging in free speech.
... They were told [by two Park Rangers that] they could not be handing
out flyers... Mark...told them that I was peacefully exercising the
Rights of Free Speech and Free Press.”See
The Power and Perversions
of Laws

"Killian and Moore will provide input on how civil rights can be violated
by those who post inflammatory documents targeted at Muslims on social
media. ... Killian is proposing is to give a special status to Islam.
No other religion has 'civil rights' that prevent it from being criticized.
That’s blasphemy law and the establishment of a state religion."

Workshops in White Privilege:
"One of the 'diversity' training documents... suggests that white people
'wear a white wristband as a reminder about your privilege, and as a
personal commitment to explain why you wear the wristband.' It also
suggests that white people ponder questions such as 'How do I ignore
privilege? What am I doing today to undo my privilege?' .... For those
white people who might find their thoughts drifting away from such self-flagellation
during the day, here are its other suggestions for keeping unearned
guilt in the forefront of one’s consciousness."
See
Government Control

Black Skin Privilege and
the American Dream:
"As it happens, the term 'white skin privilege' was first popularized
in the 1970s by the SDS radicals of 'Weatherman,' who were carrying
on a terrorist war against '“Amerikkka,' a spelling designed to stigmatize
the United States as a nation of Klansmen. Led by presidential friends,
Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, the Weather terrorists
called on other whites to renounce their privilege and join a global
race war already in progress." See

Workshops in White Privilege:
"One of the 'diversity' training documents... suggests that white people
'wear a white wristband as a reminder about your privilege, and as a
personal commitment to explain why you wear the wristband.' It also
suggests that white people ponder questions such as 'How do I ignore
privilege? What am I doing today to undo my privilege?' .... For those
white people who might find their thoughts drifting away from such self-flagellation
during the day, here are its other suggestions for keeping unearned
guilt in the forefront of one’s consciousness."
SeeGovernment Control

December 2012

The UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child:
"What Difference Does the Treaty Make as Far as Affecting our Parental
Rights in America? According to the Supremacy Clause in Article VI of
the U.S. Constitution, a treaty directly applies to all citizens in
the United States. ...'All treaties made, or which shall be made,
under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law
of the land... anything in the constitution of the laws of any state
to the contrary notwithstanding. Therefore, otherwise valid state laws
pertaining to education and parents’ rights throughout the states which
conflict with the provisions of the Treaty will be nullified by our
own U.S. Constitution.'...

"The Treaty makes it clear that infringement on a child’s rights
in any of these areas could cause the parents to be prosecuted with
the possibility of having the child removed from the home."

"While two George Soros-funded nonprofits, the Center for American
Progress and Media Matters for America, use the Alinsky playbook
to try to convince Americans that 'Islamophobia,' a make-believe
mental illness, is a threat to American democracy and pluralism,
the embattled Obama administration is currently in full-time damage
control mode as the president’s foreign policy aimed at appeasing
totalitarian Islamic theocrats collapses."

Meaningful Work:
[Sowell] "What is 'meaningful work'? The underlying notion seems to
be that it is work whose performance is satisfying or enjoyable in itself.
But if that is the only kind of work that people should have to do,
how is garbage to be collected, bed pans emptied in hospitals or jobs
with life-threatening dangers to be performed?... In the real world,
many things are done simply because they have to be done, not because
doing them brings immediate pleasure to those who do them.....

"Some
of our more Utopian intellectuals lament that many people work 'just
for the money.'... Subsidizing them in idleness while they wait for
'meaningful work' is just asking for trouble..."

August 2010

War on home gardens - Canada town outlaws
food self-sufficiency:
(8-6-12) "A Canadian couple that has been growing a beautiful, meticulously-maintained
front yard vegetable and herb garden has been ordered by city officials
to uproot most of it by September 1 or else face lofty fines. ...the
town of Drummondville in Quebec is actually planning to ban all front
yard gardens in the municipality beginning this fall; a move the
spells the end of food self-sufficiency for many Canadians...."

Man Faces 2 Years in Prison
for Shooting Grizzly While Defending Family:
"Jeremy M. Hill, 33, pleaded not guilty to killing the grizzly with a rifle
on his 20-acre property near Porthill, Idaho, at the Canadian border....Hill
has six children ranging in age from 14 years old to 10 months old andat least five were reportedly home when the grizzly appeared
and was later killed."

Scottish Murderer Converts to Islam
for Better Food & Benefits in Prison:
"...one hardened criminal in Scotland — convicted of stabbing an 82-year old
grandmother to death — who allegedly converted to Islam to avoid having to
work long hours in the prison laundry and to enjoy the presumably
better Halal meals afforded to Muslim prisoners.... Since converting,
Millar will reportedly be excused from work on Fridays to attend prayers....

"...if someone expresses an
interest in conversion... no one, including prison guards, are allowed to question
the inmate’s motivation. ...converting to Islam in prison has become akin to
joining an 'exclusive club'...Not only are these jails ‘colleges for crime’,
but they are also, potentially, terrorism incubators too."

Governments can't do everything:
"What do Obamacare, the London riots and a possible French debt crisis have
in common? ...the culprit is a state grown so large it has over-promised benefits,
oversold citizens on what they have a 'right' to but can no longer expect. The
rioters in Britain may claim they are smashing, burning, beating and grabbing
because the government has not provided them jobs or opportunities, but most
such claims are ludicrous. The generations of the last 40 years are the most-provided
for in history....The rioting is a culmination of decades of liberal social
theorists and politicians telling us that there are no consequences to our bad
behaviour - we are not responsible..."

A Christian Business in the Left's Crosshairs: "Chick-fil-A is an American
success story.... It employs some 50,000 workers across the country at 1,500
outlets in nearly 40 states and the District of Columbia....So, what’s the problem?
Well, Chick-fil-A is run by devout Christians who believe in strong marriages,
devoted families, and the highest standards of character for their workers.
The restaurant chain’s official corporate mission is to 'glorify God' and
'enrich the lives of everyone we touch.' The company’s community-service
initiatives, funded through its WinShape Foundation, support foster-care, scholarship,
summer-camp, and marriage-enrichment programs....
"For the Left, these Biblically based corporate principles
constitute social-justice high crimes and misdemeanors....Over the past
month, several progressive-activist blogs have waged an ugly war against Chick-fil-A.
The company’s alleged atrocity: One of its independent outlets in Pennsylvania
donated some sandwiches and brownies to a marriage seminar run by the Pennsylvania
Family Institute, which happens to oppose same-sex marriage.
"In the name of tolerance, the anti-Chick-fil-A hawks sneered
at the company’s main product as 'Jesus Chicken,' derided its no-Sunday-work
policy, and attacked its operators as 'anti-gay.'... It’s being done by the
hysterical bullies trying to drive them off of college grounds and out
of their neighborhoods in the name of 'human rights.'
"These were the same tactics the left-wing mob used in
California to intimidate supporters of the Proposition 8 traditional-marriage
initiative. Individual donors were put on an 'Anti-Gay Black List.'"See
Why "Hate crime" laws would ban
Biblical Christianity

June 2010

Truth On Trial:
“I am on trial, but on trial with me is the freedom of expression of many Dutch
citizens.' ...Wilders faces a year in prison or a fine of up to 7,600 euros
for supposedly inciting hatred against Muslims – which he has supposedly done
by telling the truth about how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings
of Islam themselves to incite hatred and violence against non-Muslims....

"He added: 'I am sitting
here as a suspect because I have spoken nothing but the truth.....The Wilders
trial is a turning point for the West: will Western authorities defend the
hard-won principle of the freedom of speech as a bulwark against tyranny...or
will they – in the interests of suicidal political correctness — allow Islamic
supremacists to obliterate that freedom in the interests of establishing in
the West the Sharia principle that Islam is not to be questioned or criticized...?"

ACLU protects teeth-rattling car
music: "'The throbbing,
molar-rattling bass punctuated with profanity-laced lyrics coming from the car
in front of you carries the same weight as a political candidate...asking for
votes with a bullhorn.'... Catalano was pulled over in 2007 in St. Petersburg
for playing music so loud that a cop felt justified in ticketing him...'"

May 2010

Mothers
crying over raw milk:
"Four weeks after the government moved to shut down Amish farmer Dan
Allgyer for selling fresh, unpasteurized milk across state lines, angry moms
who made up much of his customer base rallied on the Capitol’s grounds Monday
to demand that Congress rein in the food police....The FDA and the Justice
Department sought a court injunction after FDA agents conducted a one-year
sting operation, complete with fake aliases and lab testing, to determine
that the milk they surreptitiously obtained from Mr. Allgyer was, in fact, unpasteurized."

We only drank unpasteurized milk
when I was growing up in Norway. It didn't make anyone sick. But Norway has
changed a lot since then:

Norwegian MP Has Had Enough of Labour´s
Mad Demographic Experiments:
"The labor Party has turned Oslo into an ethnically divided city. In the Grorud
Valley the indigenous [Norwegian] population is moving out and non-Western [Muslim]
immigrants are moving in. Norwegians feel ostracized in their own neighborhoods....
In the Grorud Valley blonde girls are harassed into dying their hair dark.
Children are throated with beatings if their lunch box contains salami[pork offends the Muslims]
Boys of immigrant background threaten to beat Norwegian boys."

Gold medalist resigns, thanks to
pro-’gay’ criticism:
"Two-time gymnastics gold medal winner Peter Vidmar has resigned upon receiving
harsh criticism from homosexual and lesbian athletes and activists, who complained
that he had donated $2,000 to promote California’s Proposition 8, which defines
marriage as between one man and one woman." See
Moral Corruption

Free Speech Under Assault at Sinclair
Community College: "Last
October, Sinclair Community College (SCC) prohibited a paralegal studies student,
Ethel Borel-Donohue, from distributing pamphlets to her fellow students after
a class. The pamphlets focused on the link between abortion and the use of oral
contraceptives to higher rates of breast cancer. October is Breast Cancer Awareness
Month, but Judge Michael Brigner...banned the distribution after receiving a
complaint from a student who had had an abortion..."

Universities Slap the First Amendment
in the Face: "...the
civility/anti-bullying...advocates are so persistent that even Congress is considering
new anti-harassment legislation that would strip students of their basic
First Amendment freedoms on campus....

"By political
definition, popular views need no protection. It is unpopular notions
[like the sanctity of life]that are in the greatest peril
-- and it was primarily to protect their expression that the First Amendment
was adopted." See
Why "Hate crime" laws would ban
Biblical Christianity

April 2010

Foster parents argue Christians
should be allowed to help:
"A husband and wife whose dispute with local city officials over their plan
to resume providing care for foster children escalated to the point a
court concluded Christians only have 'qualified' rights to their faith
now is asking those local officials to change their decision. The case involves
Eunice and Owen Johns, who were rejected by local foster care authorities
because they would not promise to promote homosexuality to children."

Qur'an
98:6 states: "Verily, those who disbelieve (in the religion of Islam, the
Qur'an, and Prophet Muhammad) from among the people of the Scripture (Jews and
Christians)...will abide in the Fire of Hell. They are the worst of creatures."

March 2010

U.S. Muslim group 'attacks free
speech': "The Council
on American-Islamic Relations alleges it suffered damage after former federal
agent David Gaubatz and his son, Chris Gaubatz, obtained access to CAIR internal
documents under false pretenses....Posing as a Muslim, Chris Gaubatz gathered
some 12,000 pages of documents, which were meant to be shredded.... Daniel Horowitz,
one of three high-profile lawyers representing the targets of CAIR's lawsuit,
calls the complaint a 'blatant attack on the First Amendment.'...Horowitz said
CAIR knows it can't win the case, but it 'can... [make] it so expensive to speak
against them that no one can challenge' the Saudi-funded group."

The next link raises some
difficult questions that I can't answer: Muslims have
burned
countless Bibles in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Our U.S. military has
also
burned numerous Bibles -- without much (if any) public protest. Yet,
when a man burns his own Quran (which commands the killing of Jews and Christians),
our president protests and Muslims feel free to kill 12 more people. How
might such heated reactions affect America's future freedom with respect
to faith, free speech and personal property?

In 2005, some Danish editorial cartoons led to mass murder in the Middle East.
That, in turn, led to significant media fear and suppression of news critical
of Islam. As Christians we are committed to demonstrate God's love --
but also to recognize evil and to refuse to compromise. How
far might we be forced to bend to satisfy the demands of Muslim radicals
and our accommodating leaders? Two things are certain: Freedom is fading and
Sharia law
threatens America as well as Europe.

Will Koran-Burning be banned in
the United States? "As
an American in the United States of America, you are allowed to do many things.
You can burn the flag. You can burn the Bible. You can produce obscene art and
sometimes even get government money to finance it. You can make movies and TV
shows that ridicule Christianity, traditional morality, and that take the Lord’s
name in vain. If anybody objects to this, you can just accuse him of trying
to impose his values on others. Then start talking about the Salem Witch Trial....
But can you burn a Koran? Yes, but maybe not for long.....

"As a result
of his plan to burn a Koran in the U.S.A., Terry Jones received death threats.
His website was shut down. The mortgage on his church’s property was called
in and – what a coincidence – the church’s property insurance was cancelled....
All this happened to a private group which wanted to burn a privately-owned
book on private property....

"President
Obama, rather than defend American principles of freedom of speech and freedom
of religion, put the rioters on the same level as Pastor Jones: 'The desecration
of any holy text, including the Koran, is an act of extreme intolerance and
bigotry. However, to attack and kill innocent people in response is outrageous,
and an affront to human decency and dignity.

"The
U.S. Army has confiscated and burned Bibles in Afghanistan. Where was the
outcry over that?"

Obama condemns Koran burning 'bigotry':
"The desecration of any holy text, including the Koran, is an act of extreme
intolerance and bigotry,' Mr Obama said in a statement honoring those killed
in the attacks. 'However, to attack and kill innocent people in response is
outrageous, and an affront to human decency and dignity."

Muslim teacher goes off to Mecca
with AG's [US Attorney General's] blessing:
"Safoorah Khan, 29, was hired to teach middle school math in November 2007....After
nine months on the job, Khan requested a three-week leave of absence in order
to perform the hajj — the pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims are obliged
to undertake at least once in their lives if they can afford it. Employers are
required by law to honor requests for religious accommodations provided that
they do not impose 'undue hardship' on the employer or other employees. [School]
officials maintained that a three-week absence in December — which would
have denied the school itsonly math lab instructor right before exams
— was unreasonable and was not covered by the teachers' union contract. They
denied her request.

"Khan
decided to make the trip anyway and submitted her resignation. She also submitted
a letter of complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, charging
that the school board's refusal to grant the 19-day leave amounted to religious
discrimination. ...Now the Justice Department has taken up her case. ...to
combat 'a real head wind of intolerance against Muslim communities'....The
next scheduled hajj that will fall during a school vacation will be in eight
years.... But why accommodate your students and your employer when you can sue?"
See
Spreading Islam through Public Schools

January 2010

It's
called freedom of speech:
"The woman who burst out with 'except Obama' when New Jersey Democratic Rep.
Frank Pallone was reading in Congress the Constitution's requirement
that the president be a 'natural born Citizen' was simply exercising her
free speech rights, according to a law team representing her.... 'The sad irony
here is that Ms. Cao was arrested for exercising her constitutional right to
free speech at the very moment that Congress was making a show of reading aloud
the Constitution." See
No Rights for Resisters